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Re: How easy to change a cap?

Posted on 2020-03-29, 08:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Avoid any soldering iron without a base unit. You will waste your time and damage the board in the process. The best way is to have a temperature adjustable soldering station with a flat tip, add fresh solder and yank the part out little by little. This way you will avoid prolonged heat exposure. …

Re: How easy to change a cap?

Posted on 2020-03-27, 23:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

wiretap wrote on 2020-03-27, 22:26: Very easy, even with cheap equipment. Refer to the guide in my signature. Thank you, I downloaded your guides, opened the first and it was quite intimidating, opened the second and is exactly what I am after. Appreciate it

How easy to change a cap?

Posted on 2020-03-27, 22:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey all, I have a Geforce Ti4200 which has no display and on inspection one of the caps is bulging like crazy. So I thought changing all 4 of the caps that are the same might bring the card back to life. I have a super cheap soldering iron with variable temperature and some solder and flux etc. I …

Re: Wrestling with PCI video cards

Posted on 2020-03-27, 21:51

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in Marvin \ Video

I've been trying to find a good, compatible and fast PCI video card for a while (for some of my builds, and also because it's a nice thing to have lying around) and so far I've not been successful. I'm mostly interested in later cards that have at least some 3D acceleration capabilities. Here's …

Re: Clone / Duplicate display on Windows 98SE?

Posted on 2020-03-27, 21:48

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in Marvin \ Video

Hmm any reason your trying to play dos games from within windows? I know my Nvidia 6800 and spits out the same image on both connections exactly like your seeing with your MX440. If you boot into pure dos you bypass the drivers all together and keep this default behavior. I'm not sure how ATI's …

Re: Clone / Duplicate display on Windows 98SE?

Posted on 2020-03-27, 09:05

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in Marvin \ Video

The Matrox G400/G450/G550 cards spring to mind. How about something like this: https://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/legacy/g_series/g550/ Thank you, seen one on eBay for £11.50 so purchased it. How does 3D performance for late 90s, 2000/01 games compare to similar NVIDIA cards at the time? …

Re: Why is Voodoo 3 so popular?

Posted on 2020-03-26, 20:04

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in Marvin \ Video

I recently purchased a Voodoo3 2000 AGP and a bit part was nostalgia as it is what I had in my PC in 1999/2000. It is also often recommended by others for being great in DOS but also for games that support the GLIDE API

Clone / Duplicate display on Windows 98SE?

Posted on 2020-03-26, 19:36

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in Marvin \ Video

Hello all, I have two machines I want to capture their display via DVI for recording game footage. However I cannot get the display cloned from their VGA out and DVI out. PC1 (some DOS but mainly late 90s early 00s 3D gaming) has an AGP NVIDIA MX440 with VGA and DVI, this has an image to both …

Re: Good graphics card options for these two old PCs

Posted on 2020-03-18, 10:42

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in Marvin \ Video

You'll be stuck with NTSC/PAL resolution. Signal quality is also subpar for capturing. No reason to use it, if you already have 440MX with DVI. Okay thank you. I'll use the MX440 on the late 90s/Early 00s machine for good 3D performance whilst retaining decent DOS compatibility plus DVI output. …

Re: Good graphics card options for these two old PCs

Posted on 2020-03-18, 09:48

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

but VESA support is patchy as usual with ATi chips. Radeon 7000 VESA support is fine. Maybe will require few tweaks, but that's it. S3 Trio3D Not very good recommendation. The commonest card, Matrox G450 PCI, has even worse DOS VESA compatibility than the Radeon. Matrox "problems" are overhyped too …

Re: Good graphics card options for these two old PCs

Posted on 2020-03-18, 02:23

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in Marvin \ Video

DVI and paring well with those CPUs is a challenge as DVI wasn't really a thing in P3-days, let alone in P1 days. There are enough AGP DVI cards, but newer than period appropriate. Plus DVI+GLide=some very rare&expensive cards. However looking at your options, I'd say: - stick the Radeon 7000 in …

Good graphics card options for these two old PCs

Posted on 2020-03-17, 21:47

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Hello all, I have two PCs and cannot decide what graphics cards to put in them and was hoping you guys can help me decide: PC 1 : Apricot MS540 Pentium 166Mhz 32MB RAM Creative Labs 16 Win95 and Win98SE (Both via CF) ATi Rage 128 Pro (AIW), no AGP. PCI only PC2: Pentium III 600Mhz 128MB RAM Aureal …

Re: Apricot MS540 - Password Help

Posted on 2019-03-02, 20:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

tannerstevo wrote: Is the bios chip socketed? If so, you might be able to flash a blank chip and go back to the defaults. I've not had a proper look to see which EPROM may be the BIOS, but they are all soldered rather than socketed

Re: Apricot MS540 - Password Help

Posted on 2019-03-02, 20:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote: Ah, OK - I was only searching sold listings when I spotted the Bristol one. Still, have you contacted your own seller? My seller got it with the password. The system owner moved house in 2017

Re: Apricot MS540 - Password Help

Posted on 2019-03-02, 18:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It wasn't one in Bristol. I can't see one for sale in Bristol on eBay?

Re: Apricot MS540 - Password Help

Posted on 2019-03-01, 22:33

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nprod wrote: Have you tried reflashing/updating the BIOS? Also i didn't quite get if it lets you get to Win95 or if the prompt comes up as soon as the machine boots. No go. Password appears before the machine even reads the floppy or access to BIOS

Re: Apricot MS540 - Password Help

Posted on 2019-02-25, 15:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nprod wrote: Have you tried reflashing/updating the BIOS? Also i didn't quite get if it lets you get to Win95 or if the prompt comes up as soon as the machine boots. It comes up before Windows boots. It's just after the memory check. Hmm could do. I might try that

Re: Apricot MS540 - Password Help

Posted on 2019-02-25, 12:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Had a quick look in the manual - https://www.manualslib.com/manual/104540/Mitsubishi-Apricot-Ms540.html#manual Page 63: PL21 Next to outer video upgrade socket, default position link pins 1 and 2. Moving the link to pins 2 and 3 disconnects the battery from the BIOS memory, and will cause all the …

Apricot MS540 - Password Help

Posted on 2019-02-25, 01:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey all, I recently purchased an Apricot MS540 from eBay, however it has a Fingerprint Password upon the POST screen. It doesn't seem this can be cleared by resetting the BIOS. The user manual states: "The Apricot Electronic Fingerprinting program appears every time you start Windows 95 until you …

Re: CT2760 AWE32 Audio Problem

Posted on 2018-12-28, 23:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You never listed your config.sys... did you have the PnP Configuration Manager installed? Device driver loaded? How about the ctmmsys (IIRC) device drivers? For my P-166 with an AWE32, all I got was pain and misery until all of the above were loaded. In my experience, early jumperless boards were …

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